True/False 2024: A Photographic Memory, There Was There Was Not, Three Promises
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Like many festivals and observers, True/False, the preeminent nonfiction film festival in Columbia, Missouri, has had displacement on its mind while considering a central question: How do we hold onto what once was? For many filmmakers, the preservation of memories,...
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SXSW 2024 Review: HUNTING DAZE, This Party Ends In Blood
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One of several films at this year’s SXSW that explore the effects of women’s presence in traditionally male spaces, Annick Blanc’s Hunting Daze is among the bloodiest of the lot. When exotic dancer Nina (Nahéma Ricci) gets in a fight...
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SXSW 2024 Review: AZRAEL, Samara Weaving Leads This Dialogue-Free Ripper
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In a future some time beyond the Rapture, a sect of penitents renounces the gift of speech in the hopes of secondary salvation. However, their survival depends on more than piety, and when a sacrifice goes awry, one former believer...
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SXSW 2024 Review: THE IN BETWEEN, Stop Your Sobbing
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Director Robie Flores and producer Alejandro Flores fill their debut feature with wistful yearning and thoughtful observations on their hometown, straddling Texas and Mexico. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2024 Review: DEAD MAIL, This Lo-Fi Retro Thriller Excites In Form And Function
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When a mysterious bloody plea for help ends up in the dead letter office of a rural post office, the inspector on site becomes determined to find its origin, leading him down a deadly road in writer/directors Joe DeBoer and...
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Berlinale 2024 Review: THE DEVIL’S BATH, Gripping Period Drama on the Cusp of Reality and Despair
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Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala embark on a haunting exploration of 18th-century womanhood, set against the backdrop of societal and religious confines. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Road House
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“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western. It’s more like a cartoon. While that may sound harsh, some of the Looney Tunes-esque qualities of this reimagining of the 1989 Patrick Swayze classic work in its...
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Netflix Launches Ambitious, Engaging Adaptation of 3 Body Problem
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If you’ve been missing the mind f*ck properties of HBO’s “Westworld,” Netflix has a show for you. You know that feeling that so many streaming shows sag due to having too few ideas for their episode order? What’s the opposite...
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Stormy
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Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have been dominated by Doug Liman’s remake of “Road House,” but there was a major event unfolding just next door at almost the same time, a major stop on...
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SXSW 2024 Review: ODDITY, A Creepy Supernatural Thriller From Ireland
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The world’s creepiest mannequin holds the secret behind a shocking death in Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is struggling to restore an old estate inherited by her busy doctor husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee). When a mysterious and violent death...
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